On top of the already mentioned "upgrade towers" bit, spreading the slow in stages would have massively helped here. You could have staged slowing towers deeper down the line to handle the sprinters that made it to the tower. That 2k gold at the end could have potentially saved that run.
The BEST defense for the small eyeballs that killed you is a shredder tower with Shield upgrades. With enough upgrades it will only take one or two towers to strip their shields, and from there your batistas (which you should put upgrade health) can finish them off.
Also with balistas you shouldn't just upgrade health you should have some with just shield and just armour and also either with the flame or poison tower because they have aoe you should upgrade only health on a few because they hit more than one target
Unless you're doing an achievement run (like no Ballista challenge) you need to be placing Ballista around every house at the start and any the spawn along the path/paths because they generate a massive amount of money over the course of a run. Also Picking fewer towers and instead getting their upgrade cards is much better then grabbing a bunch of towers that only have their base stats. Lastly setting priorities on individual towers is required to get passed the later waves because higher stat enemies need to be worn down over their tip to your tower.
Just bought this game tonight. Thank you for all of the game inspirations. You’ve given me hours of entertainment through your videos and the games you play!
Know that df knows less than you he just does random strategies and repeats the ones that work with slight alterations but thats the reason we watch him that and his amazing commentary
DF chaos meter is the equivalent of 8 tanks, 14 nukes, 81 warships, and what the heck lets add every single natural disaster in the universe x3, its even more terrifying with his casual voice
One of the most important things in this game is making sure that you apply all the dot debuffs also increasing the max burn/bleed/poison damage per sec is a double edged sword because the effect won’t last as long, which is bad against regen enemies
An advice: you can easily specialise in one form of attacking tower, like the obelisk, or pair that with the onlooker tower to gain extra power, then you need universitis for late game
It's easier to have an all-ballista run than to try to go for every single tower type in the same run Also, you REALLY should be upgrading your towers; upgrading a tower will not only increase the damage multiplier that you chose, but also increase the BASE damage as well The fire rate of encampments does not work the same way as other towers: encampments have a fixed fire rate **per path tile** that is within the encampment's range - this means that the more path tiles are within the encampment's range, the more mines per minute the encampment will spit out
@@pixxlated_ That is true, but the fact that upgrade cards stack (and that some very powerful upgrade cards are locked behind weaker upgrade cards) means that there is a natural trade-off between choosing upgrade cards for existing towers and choosing new towers
Df i love you man you have helped my depression and stopped me from doing the worst may god protect you indefinitely and through eternity in the name of buddah god and allah i pray amen ❤
Encampments are good but when placing them look at the "fire rate." The higher the fire rate the more space it has available to drop the land mines. They can do really well if placed properly!
People don't use enough frost towers, especially towards the keep. Those little fast guys, you need to slow them down so you can hurt them, So having frost towers there would help a lot. Also if it forks out like that, putting frost towers all down 1 or 2 of the paths along with poison and fire, and bleed. You want to slow down a bunch of the enemies to take the load off your kill box.
You made me buy this game because you keep only placing towers instead of bothering you use that -massive side screen to the right on every tower to upgrade individual stats to help you progress-
@@titoepfx4272 not just that, but he yet again instantly jumps on unlocking every tower even though he cant afford any of them. having balistas do +1 damage to health is way way better than unlocking a frost keep, for people that dont know. upgrades are way better. thats why most people only get like 3-4 tower types and just boost them
I wonder how deep down the rabbit hole DF would go in a gemcraft tower defense game? I remember one was released on steam a bit back, and I never got too deep into any of them, but they were utterly fascinating and still are.
Tesla coils. The best tower in the game if you want mana to run out quickly while doing hardly anything at all. Poison tower is infinitely better in all ways
Every video he makes on this game there is a clear skill difference between each video you can clearly see he's getting better and better with each video on this game
Obelisk is good at destroying bosses with it's 320 RPM and Particle cannon is good at destroying fast and strong enemies with it's high damage i suggest making a particle cannon with lots of health damage
its incredible how DF's editor sees him not upgrade towers - and DF upgrades towers, SO LITTLE throughout this whole thing. why have 1 strong tower when you can have 34918 of them right?
I wonder when DF is going to learn to take advantage of all the little houses, you know since he places so many ballista randomly and how he also doesn't use the high tower plots either 😂
I'm convinced at this point he purposely plays games stupidly. Takes advantage of people's arrogance and need to scream how he's wrong. Makes videos get tons of comment engagement thus way up in the algorithm. Just look at the hundreds of comments that all say the same thing: Houses Upgrading towers Et al His comments legit look like bot farms 🤣
I think what happened at the end was that the mortars ended up getting distracted from the central pocket of damage. Fast boys go in, center loses mortar damage, even more fast boys get in.
Also as everyone has been saying for a while now (and even the editors today), upgrading towers not only raises how much Health, Armor or Shield damage a tower do, but also enhances the base damage of the towers as well. So upgrading a tower will make it more powerful than having 6~10 towers at upgrade lvl 1. Also while I love DF content, he likes to cluster everything up and while nice, some towers lose their edge when in a cluster. For example one should try to have Frostkeeps all over the map, specially near the tower to slow the roads from beginning to end as some enemies get rather fast, then other towers like the mines are slow or fast based on location. Basically speaking the encampment for the mines shoot them faster when there are other lines around but if you put it in a single road path, the are beyond slow. Once DF finds out the true power of upgrading, he will surely go beyond 40 easily.
What I found to be the strongest setup is not to select to many towers but focus on getting higher upgrade cards for your existing ones. After upgrading health damage on ballistas three times, you will unlock cards that give you more range on those towers. After upgrading shield three times, you get mana burn arrows. Don't remember what amor upgrades give. But each triple upgrade unlocks a +15% crit card as well, turning your towers into killing machines. In short: upgrading either health, armor or shield damage for a tower tyoe three times will unlock the most powerful upgrades for that tower.
The best defense is the Tesla coil tower, I defended the castle twice with it and killing the boss really easy as long as you have the upgrade of poison that slows the enemy and also getting the poison sprayer, it out-matched the obelisk by a ton since I've upgraded the Tesla coil to 125 levels with 3k to 4k to shield, armor, health, and does 100+ base damage which one hits some enemies, perfect of roundabouts.
split defences and win. Do not concentrate defences, there are some enemies that when they die they split up! By the way, i watch every single one of your videos, you help me a lot!
I miss when you used to edit your own videos, I know it’s a hassle but these editors are doing things to your videos that don’t fit your style. there doesn’t need to be “funny” reactions or weird voice changes or random text in the middle of the video, just you being yourself is more than enough
Its a good idea if you have teammates cause they can focus on the back but solo i reccomend fortify mid point and choke points most fortify is base cause i saw someone play and they got recked by fast enemies
The best way to do it is use ballistas up to about lvl 15 placing them around every house and only upgrade ballistas. Then at lvl 15 try to have about 3 towers max, a shield tower like posion sprayer, an armor tower like flame thrower, and your ballista. After lvl 15 armor becomes a factor so put armor shredding towers at the beginning of each path like a flame thrower a and rely on your ballistas for the rest, trust me once you get broadhead bolts, heavy shafts, and shield damage along with Mana bolts nothing gets through the ballistas until level 25 and even then barely. Once you hit lvl 25 you should hopefully have banditry to give you an extra 6g per kill and Mana banks with the savings upgrade. Also when expanding try to pick one path to expand and make a long path, another to be a little shorter, and another to be the shortest at the beginning so your towers aren't overwhelmed. Other than that the DF way also works if the RNG God's are fully on your side.
Tip, PLACE MINES! Sorry, but they increase your health and have a % chance to heal you so if you can get at least ten of them you theoretically should heal at least one health every time they activate
DF’s edior’s knows what’s up, upgrading towers is huge, also you should get the speed up mod to speed up the game and the mod that allows you remove certian cards from the deck so you have more control over which towers you want to upgrade.
Ya know that feeling you get when DF posts a new video? Well that’s how I feel every time I wear my “ get in the boat” hoodie. BUT someone in my house spilt bleach on it and won’t fess up and I’m heartbroken!
I feel like a point that's not being made is "yo-yo-ing" the new tower vs. upgrade breakpoints. Then again, just going into and varying turret priority regardless of number can work wonders, too.
Best strategy to win this, only get Ballistas, Money upgrades and Ballista upgrades. Nothing else, no upgrades or anything, just loads of Ballistas and Death tax things ofc.
The editors are just PACKED full of sass today! Love it - they are truly the voice of the people.
The editor is our mouthpiece! :D
Torture is bad…but is now socially acceptable 😄
Just a quick piece of advice, upgrading towers Is much better than building a lot of them
Very true but flamethrowers and mortar go brrrrr
According to Russia, your wrong
Not true for balistas however
@@ydoyouthink5558 hiroshima doesnt think the same
@@ydoyouthink5558 according to the USA you're wrong
On top of the already mentioned "upgrade towers" bit, spreading the slow in stages would have massively helped here. You could have staged slowing towers deeper down the line to handle the sprinters that made it to the tower. That 2k gold at the end could have potentially saved that run.
it's too funny how his editor knows how to play the game and put that bit in it about how one day df will learn to upgrade towers lmao.
Torture is bad…but is now socially acceptable 😄
@@cyovu what?
@@cyovu stop spamming
Nobody cares
@@cyovu you are not the original owo
The BEST defense for the small eyeballs that killed you is a shredder tower with Shield upgrades. With enough upgrades it will only take one or two towers to strip their shields, and from there your batistas (which you should put upgrade health) can finish them off.
batista bomb
Eye balls? I just used poison sprayers like I only use flamethrower ice Tesla crossbow poison and the mana and uni
Also with balistas you shouldn't just upgrade health you should have some with just shield and just armour and also either with the flame or poison tower because they have aoe you should upgrade only health on a few because they hit more than one target
Torture is bad…but is now socially acceptable 😄
Ur voice is so calming its 3am rn and I'm just binge watching ur vids
Helps me go to sleep too it’s only 10 over here tho
I AM SHIDDING
Sameee
think you guys might be gay
Why is there so many people who watch his vids mostly because of his voice
DF: *holding up a mortar* "Everything the light touches is our kingdom."
whenever DF uploads, my day is saved. Bro there is something with the way you talk that is pure gold.
Cat go oink yes?
Unless you're doing an achievement run (like no Ballista challenge) you need to be placing Ballista around every house at the start and any the spawn along the path/paths because they generate a massive amount of money over the course of a run. Also Picking fewer towers and instead getting their upgrade cards is much better then grabbing a bunch of towers that only have their base stats. Lastly setting priorities on individual towers is required to get passed the later waves because higher stat enemies need to be worn down over their tip to your tower.
Just bought this game tonight. Thank you for all of the game inspirations. You’ve given me hours of entertainment through your videos and the games you play!
Yo can you pass it on share it pls? I want to play it
Couldn’t have said it better
The devs dont seem to be particularly nice, mind. Shame they’re not listening to their fans
@@regulargoat7259 how so? Only watched gameplay but know nothing about behind the scenes
What’s this game called
DF builing his whole strstegy on mortars, who have slow projectiles.
Fast enemies appear and run just by the mortar fire.
DF: :O
I know nothing about this game but know that DF will push it to whatever limits it has
Know that df knows less than you he just does random strategies and repeats the ones that work with slight alterations but thats the reason we watch him that and his amazing commentary
DF doesn't break every game he plays. Just the ones he really likes.
Been looking forward to seeing more of this game!
Me to
me three
Me four
Torture is bad…but is now socially acceptable 😄
Me five
DF: More towers more damage! But I have so much left over money, what to do with it…
Editor: UPGRADE YOUR TOWERS
I agree with the editor
Just so you know placing the towers higher doesnt just increase their range but also BASE damage
DF chaos meter is the equivalent of 8 tanks, 14 nukes, 81 warships, and what the heck lets add every single natural disaster in the universe x3, its even more terrifying with his casual voice
One of the most important things in this game is making sure that you apply all the dot debuffs also increasing the max burn/bleed/poison damage per sec is a double edged sword because the effect won’t last as long, which is bad against regen enemies
An advice: you can easily specialise in one form of attacking tower, like the obelisk, or pair that with the onlooker tower to gain extra power, then you need universitis for late game
The music at the end of DF's videos is so nice.
Nah because why is this so true he could murder every living thing then that music is just *chefs kiss*
It's easier to have an all-ballista run than to try to go for every single tower type in the same run
Also, you REALLY should be upgrading your towers; upgrading a tower will not only increase the damage multiplier that you chose, but also increase the BASE damage as well
The fire rate of encampments does not work the same way as other towers: encampments have a fixed fire rate **per path tile** that is within the encampment's range - this means that the more path tiles are within the encampment's range, the more mines per minute the encampment will spit out
Enemies drop additional gold for each unique tower they've been hit by, so it's worth having at least one of each AOE tower to get some more money.
@@pixxlated_ That is true, but the fact that upgrade cards stack (and that some very powerful upgrade cards are locked behind weaker upgrade cards) means that there is a natural trade-off between choosing upgrade cards for existing towers and choosing new towers
Right before you failed that level you hovered over a tower that WAS ONLY 10 GOLD TO UPGRADE. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s always a Goodnight when df uploads 😎
Df i love you man you have helped my depression and stopped me from doing the worst may god protect you indefinitely and through eternity in the name of buddah god and allah i pray amen ❤
The chika dance at the end makes the heart swell with joy
I love the gifs the editor puts at the end of a random character dancing especially since it’s usually a new one every time
I always have a cup of coffee while watching DF is the best
I find it funny how both DF and RCE both kinda didn't notice the tower upgrade buttons for the longest time. XD
That's actually something I forgot about
Good morning people. It’s 4 am and I just woke up and got something to eat, perfect timing.
Good morning its 3am for me💀
DF, the leveling up curve relative to placing the next tower is kinda OP.
Encampments are good but when placing them look at the "fire rate." The higher the fire rate the more space it has available to drop the land mines. They can do really well if placed properly!
You said it kinda backwards. The more space it covers, the more RPM it has, same with the frost tower.
Money, murder, not upgrading your towers, and more murder.
Just an average df upload
"now they have to run pass this trebuchet" -DF 2022
1:20
I mean it's close
@@watermelonsarecoolio honestly it is close but im most certain that he will call an actuall trebuchet a catapult
@@thisismyusername6071 he would tho wouldn't he
@@watermelonsarecoolio he prob would honestly
Yeeeeesssss... Late night content I want.
its 11:04 A.m Here so
Yeeeeessss... After noon content
14:38 Those mortars have all the same effects as a nuke at this point lol
People don't use enough frost towers, especially towards the keep. Those little fast guys, you need to slow them down so you can hurt them, So having frost towers there would help a lot.
Also if it forks out like that, putting frost towers all down 1 or 2 of the paths along with poison and fire, and bleed. You want to slow down a bunch of the enemies to take the load off your kill box.
I love how chika was in sync with the outro
Who needs sleep when you have DF
Me last night
It's funny how frustrated I get just seeing DF place a million unupgraded towers 🤣🤣
But that's df for you
Btw it's 9pm great video df also pls bring back luck be a landlord
I don’t know why but I just love you for no reason
Hi DF. Perfect timing. Awesome video. Calming voice. All in one? Amazing. Simply amazingly awesome.
I love the editor at 15:23. He called DF out before about tower upgrading, but this call out felt more dirty
Love this game its so good
The outro jingle is much better then the abrupt ending outro, i fall asleep to your content every night DF
You made me buy this game because you keep only placing towers instead of bothering you use that -massive side screen to the right on every tower to upgrade individual stats to help you progress-
Why does everyone just make more and more towers without upgrading the ones you have? You get much further with upgrading
so he did it again this video?
@@titoepfx4272 not just that, but he yet again instantly jumps on unlocking every tower even though he cant afford any of them. having balistas do +1 damage to health is way way better than unlocking a frost keep, for people that dont know. upgrades are way better. thats why most people only get like 3-4 tower types and just boost them
I wonder how deep down the rabbit hole DF would go in a gemcraft tower defense game? I remember one was released on steam a bit back, and I never got too deep into any of them, but they were utterly fascinating and still are.
DF is playing a tower defense game!
yeah no, I don't know why she's dancing but she is
edit : also what is the ending music, I love it!
edit edit : UPGRADE YOUR TOWERSSS
Tesla coils. The best tower in the game if you want mana to run out quickly while doing hardly anything at all. Poison tower is infinitely better in all ways
Editors are men of culture haha chika dancing at the end
Every video he makes on this game there is a clear skill difference between each video you can clearly see he's getting better and better with each video on this game
I’m glad to say your merch is the first one I’ve ever bought! I can wear it without other people knowing it’s merch lol
It’s a good idea to ignore those large forts. Extra damage and range is something you want to avoid.
I think there might be a hint to upgrade towers, also should have put more Mines, you would have had Loads more health!
0:39 Obi wan kenobi:YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE HIGH GROUND
Obelisk is good at destroying bosses with it's 320 RPM and Particle cannon is good at destroying fast and strong enemies with it's high damage i suggest making a particle cannon with lots of health damage
its incredible how DF's editor sees him not upgrade towers - and DF upgrades towers, SO LITTLE throughout this whole thing. why have 1 strong tower when you can have 34918 of them right?
Dfs mind in every game
I wonder when DF is going to learn to take advantage of all the little houses, you know since he places so many ballista randomly and how he also doesn't use the high tower plots either 😂
I'm convinced at this point he purposely plays games stupidly. Takes advantage of people's arrogance and need to scream how he's wrong. Makes videos get tons of comment engagement thus way up in the algorithm.
Just look at the hundreds of comments that all say the same thing:
Houses
Upgrading towers
Et al
His comments legit look like bot farms 🤣
Love your vids bro keep doing good
Unstoppable is right! I'm going to have to get this game for sure!
Love the vids keep up the great work
16:00 "We should take shield first and then armor"
He figured it out!
I think what happened at the end was that the mortars ended up getting distracted from the central pocket of damage. Fast boys go in, center loses mortar damage, even more fast boys get in.
Also as everyone has been saying for a while now (and even the editors today), upgrading towers not only raises how much Health, Armor or Shield damage a tower do, but also enhances the base damage of the towers as well.
So upgrading a tower will make it more powerful than having 6~10 towers at upgrade lvl 1. Also while I love DF content, he likes to cluster everything up and while nice, some towers lose their edge when in a cluster.
For example one should try to have Frostkeeps all over the map, specially near the tower to slow the roads from beginning to end as some enemies get rather fast, then other towers like the mines are slow or fast based on location. Basically speaking the encampment for the mines shoot them faster when there are other lines around but if you put it in a single road path, the are beyond slow.
Once DF finds out the true power of upgrading, he will surely go beyond 40 easily.
He is getting better. I am glad. Wave 40, it is a killer. Just ask Wander.
16:07: When I walk into the girl's locker room
Edit: 17:36 The damage is too much to handle for DF? This is unheard of!
The more and more i watch people play this, the more I wish it was free.
What I found to be the strongest setup is not to select to many towers but focus on getting higher upgrade cards for your existing ones. After upgrading health damage on ballistas three times, you will unlock cards that give you more range on those towers. After upgrading shield three times, you get mana burn arrows. Don't remember what amor upgrades give. But each triple upgrade unlocks a +15% crit card as well, turning your towers into killing machines.
In short: upgrading either health, armor or shield damage for a tower tyoe three times will unlock the most powerful upgrades for that tower.
I've found that mortars>balistas even when it comes to upgrade
I bought this game and within 24 hours I had 18 hours of active playtime
What game is it?
@@YTDiamondAuto rouge tower
11:00 every night. Thx for the sleep video will def watch later
The videos are amazing, keep em up!!
The best defense is the Tesla coil tower, I defended the castle twice with it and killing the boss really easy as long as you have the upgrade of poison that slows the enemy and also getting the poison sprayer, it out-matched the obelisk by a ton since I've upgraded the Tesla coil to 125 levels with 3k to 4k to shield, armor, health, and does 100+ base damage which one hits some enemies, perfect of roundabouts.
I do believe DF's editor wants him to upgrade towers, so we should all tell him to do that. I'll start: DF, upgrade your towers!
split defences and win. Do not concentrate defences, there are some enemies that when they die they split up! By the way, i watch every single one of your videos, you help me a lot!
I miss when you used to edit your own videos, I know it’s a hassle but these editors are doing things to your videos that don’t fit your style. there doesn’t need to be “funny” reactions or weird voice changes or random text in the middle of the video, just you being yourself is more than enough
I mean it's pretty funny with editor callouts tho
Its a good idea if you have teammates cause they can focus on the back but solo i reccomend fortify mid point and choke points most fortify is base cause i saw someone play and they got recked by fast enemies
The best way to do it is use ballistas up to about lvl 15 placing them around every house and only upgrade ballistas. Then at lvl 15 try to have about 3 towers max, a shield tower like posion sprayer, an armor tower like flame thrower, and your ballista. After lvl 15 armor becomes a factor so put armor shredding towers at the beginning of each path like a flame thrower a and rely on your ballistas for the rest, trust me once you get broadhead bolts, heavy shafts, and shield damage along with Mana bolts nothing gets through the ballistas until level 25 and even then barely. Once you hit lvl 25 you should hopefully have banditry to give you an extra 6g per kill and Mana banks with the savings upgrade. Also when expanding try to pick one path to expand and make a long path, another to be a little shorter, and another to be the shortest at the beginning so your towers aren't overwhelmed. Other than that the DF way also works if the RNG God's are fully on your side.
Armor comes at level 8 iirc, shields come at level 15
@@pedrolmlkzk yeah ur right lol I was dead asleep last night
Gottem contused
great vido as always, im going to ad dto the big upgrade army: upgrade your towers (:
im kinna mad that DF only has 2M subs ngl he deserves more
Tip, PLACE MINES! Sorry, but they increase your health and have a % chance to heal you so if you can get at least ten of them you theoretically should heal at least one health every time they activate
This is great! Keep it up
I was about to go to bed but them I saw u post. Love your vids
So good
I agree
yes
My guy… how did you finish the video in 17 seconds.
Dude it’s been 1 min
@@ElecYolo quickly
DF’s edior’s knows what’s up, upgrading towers is huge, also you should get the speed up mod to speed up the game and the mod that allows you remove certian cards from the deck so you have more control over which towers you want to upgrade.
Ya know that feeling you get when DF posts a new video? Well that’s how I feel every time I wear my “ get in the boat” hoodie. BUT someone in my house spilt bleach on it and won’t fess up and I’m heartbroken!
I can’t believe df has been hiding these world2 and 3 soundtracks from me. Real good stuff, that music
I feel like a point that's not being made is "yo-yo-ing" the new tower vs. upgrade breakpoints. Then again, just going into and varying turret priority regardless of number can work wonders, too.
I fell down to earth
from a hundred miles away and somehow
18:53
I need to find out who this man’s editor is because they seem like an amazing human being
Best thing to watch in the middle of the night.
Best strategy to win this, only get Ballistas, Money upgrades and Ballista upgrades.
Nothing else, no upgrades or anything, just loads of Ballistas and Death tax things ofc.
Please, dear DF: UPGRADE THE DAMN TOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love his vids
Man this would have been a good time to put a krieger meme "bombing the enemies city 5 years straight after they surrendered"
DF PLACE your towers on the pillars that makes them the most effective
4:30 one day will know about the beauty of upgrading towers 15:13 MAYBE UPGRADE TOWERS COUGH
I don't know much about this game, but methinks DF needs to upgrade towers instead of building more, then take that Quality over Quantity thingy
you should try out the perfect tower 2 its actually a really cool game
that actually has less gameplay than cookie clicker. and theres no cash shop for him to just buy things till it gets interesting to watch
DF, UPGRADE YER TOWERS!
I loved that Chika at the end there!